The First West: Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860

by David Rachels

In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American writing, the "West," which comprised the territory between the Appalachian mountains and the Mississippi River, was a ubiquitous topic. Yet this writing is often overlooked in studies of the American West, which reach past this region to the Far Western frontier, and in analyses of whites and Native Americans, which typically focus on moments of contact.
Tracing historic events in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195141334
• ISBN13: 9780195141337
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 960 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"